MONDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 34, 4 March 1932, Page 14

MONDAY

Items from Wellington URING the afternoon descriptions of play in the second test ericket match will be broadcast, A. Varney being at the microphone. At 7.40 Mr. W. A. Sutherland, secretary of the Wellington Automobile Club, will give one of his series of talks on "Road Signs and Signals." The Versatility Singers will be introduced to 2¥YA listeners, presenting three recitals-"Musick of Olde England," "British Musie today," and "A Darkey Sing-Song." The quartet comprises Christina Ormiston, Hilda Chudley, Roy Hill and Ernest Short, four leading radio singers. In the section devoted to old English music will be introduced a dulcitone, an old-time instrument. The vocal numbers will comprise quartets and solos. Also on the evening programme will be Mary Cooley, narrating one of O. Henry’s stories. There will also be the 2YA Orchestrina and Karl Atkinson will give a half-hour’s lecture recital on "Prodigies Past and Present." From 10 p.m. till 11 p.m. there will be dance music. Selections from 3YA A POPULAR programme will be pro- "~ vided by the Ashburton Salvation Army Silver Band (under conductorship of Geo, E. Argyle). Keith Sharp, tenor, will be heard for the first time singing songs which will be new to listeners. Hilda Hutt (soprano) will also be heard in some of the newer songs. A series of lighter trios will be played by the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio. The evening’s programme will be interspersed with a splendid variety of recordings of light opera, comic songs, light piano vocal gems, bass baritone, sea chanties, nightingale and bird recordings, orchestral, humour, and choral partsongs. Topics from 4YA A PROGRAMME of recordings is scheduled. Orchestral numbers will include the ‘Danse Macabre," "Kol Nidrei,’ Romberg’s "Toy Symphony" and Coleridge-Taylor’s "Petite Suite de Concert." There will be a number of band selections, selections by Squire’s Celeste Octet, male voice choruses, light opera choruses, soprano solos by Marie Tiffany and. Hisie Suddaby, two baritone solos by Peter Dawson, and piano, violin and organ solos,